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Lot 1235
Very Rare Early French Republican Map of Great Britain and Ireland
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Nouvelle Carte Geo-Hydrographique des Isles Britanniques, ou Royaume Uni De Grande-Bretagne et D'Irlande Divise par Provinces & Comtés avec les principales Routes (Paris: Ch. Picquet, Ann 11, 1803), engraving dissected and laid to linen for folding; outline color throughout, highly detailed for both land and sea, one panel on back having a manuscript identification label. Presented in a carved double-sided wooden frame that reveals the back.

DOA 35 x 29 in.

The Estate of the late Rushton W. Hays, St. Augustine, FL

This traveling map was published at the onset of the Napoleonic wars and would have certainly been useful to French strategists on both land and sea.

Fine appearance; not examined out of the frame.

$500 - 1,000